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NOIRLab TAC Results and Statistics 2015A

NOAO Proposal Statistics by Telescope and Instrument for 2015A

The following tables list 2015A proposal request statistics for telescopes and instruments in the US ground-based observing system coordinated by NOAO. Only the 328 new proposals submitted to the 2015A NOAO TAC are included here (not Surveys, NASA GO programs, or ongoing long-term programs).

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Telescope/Instrument    Proposals       "Runs"       Total Nights    Dark Nights Percentage
Dark		 Average
Nights/Run
CT-4m   27   32   90.0   37.5   42 2.8
    COSMOS     6     7   16.0     3.0   19 2.3
    DECam   21   25   74.0   34.5   47 3.0
 
SOAR   26   29   74.5   20.5   28 2.6
    Goodman   18   20   54.0   15.0   28 2.7
    OSIRIS     1     1     3.5     0.0     0 3.5
    SAM     1     1     1.0     0.0     0 1.0
    SOI     3     3     8.0     4.0   50 2.7
    Spartan     1     1     2.0     0.0     0 2.0
    VIS     2     3     6.0     1.5   25 2.0
 
CT-1.5m   11   11   37.1     1.0     3 3.4
    CHIRON   11   11   37.1     1.0     3 3.4
 
CT-1.3m   10   10   21.6     0.0     0 2.2
    ANDI   10   10   21.6     0.0     0 2.2
 
CT-0.9m     3     3   22.0     0.0     0 7.3
    CFIM     3     3   22.0     0.0     0 7.3
 
 

Kitt Peak National Observatory
Telescope/Instrument    Proposals       "Runs"       Total Nights    Dark Nights Percentage
Dark		 Average
Nights/Run
KP-4m   37   50 153.0   66.0   43 3.1
    KOSMOS   11   13   37.0   26.0   70 2.8
    MOSA   13   21   52.5   34.0   65 2.5
    NEWFIRM     6     6   27.5     0.0     0 4.6
    PHNX     3     3   11.0     0.0     0 3.7
    RCSP     7     7   25.0     6.0   24 3.6
 
WIYN   18   22   70.0   24.0   34 3.2
    HEXPK     2     2     8.0     0.0     0 4.0
    HYDR   13   16   50.0   14.0   28 3.1
    SPSPKR + STA1     3     4   12.0   10.0   83 3.0
 
KP-0.9m     3     4   24.0     6.0   25 6.0
    HDI     3     4   24.0     6.0   25 6.0
 
 

Gemini North
Telescope/Instrument    Proposals       "Runs"       Total Nights    Dark Nights Percentage
Dark		 Average
Nights/Run
GEM-N 126 187 159.2   51.3   32 0.9
    COMICS     1     1     0.7     0.0     0 0.7
    DSSI     7     7   13.9     0.0     0 2.0
    GMOSN   51   77   60.8   41.7   68 0.8
    GNIRS   22   26   30.9     0.0     0 1.2
    HDS     6     6     7.0     0.0     0 1.2
    HSC     2     2     4.0     4.0 100 2.0
    IRCS     1     1     0.7     0.7 100 0.7
    MOIRCS     1     1     1.2     1.2 100 1.2
    NIFS   23   46   24.3     0.0     0 0.5
    NIRI   16   18   12.6     1.7   14 0.7
    SuprimeCam     2     2     3.0     2.0   67 1.5
 
 

Gemini South
Telescope/Instrument    Proposals       "Runs"       Total Nights    Dark Nights Percentage
Dark		 Average
Nights/Run
GEM-S   90 145 107.9   37.2   34 0.7
    Flamingos2   18   25   21.8     0.0     0 0.9
    GMOSS   43   67   54.5   36.8   68 0.8
    GPI   19   35   19.3     0.4     2 0.6
    GSAOI   13   18   12.3     0.0     0 0.7
 
 

Siding Spring Observatory
Telescope/Instrument    Proposals       "Runs"       Total Nights    Dark Nights Percentage
Dark		 Average
Nights/Run
AAT   12   12   28.5   10.5   37 2.4
    AAOmega     7     7   16.0     6.5   41 2.3
    HERMES+2dF     1     1     4.0     4.0 100 4.0
    IRIS2     1     1     1.5     0.0     0 1.5
    UCLES     2     2     6.0     0.0     0 3.0
    VIS     1     1     1.0     0.0     0 1.0
 
 

CHARA
Telescope/Instrument    Proposals       "Runs"       Total Nights    Dark Nights Percentage
Dark		 Average
Nights/Run
CHARA     5     6   11.5     0.0     0 1.9
    Classic     2     3     8.0     0.0     0 2.7
    Climb     2     2     3.0     0.0     0 1.5
    VEGA     1     1     0.5     0.0     0 0.5
 

NOAO Approved Programs for 2015A

Approved NOAO Survey Programs

 

 

PI Institution Proposal Title Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.
Allen, Lori National Optical Astronomy Observatory The DECam NEO Survey 2013B-0536 CTIO 4m 10
Moskovitz, Nicholas Lowell Observatory Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) 2013B-0270 CTIO 1.3m 6
Moskovitz, Nicholas Lowell Observatory Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) 2013B-0270 CTIO SOAR 7
Moskovitz, Nicholas Lowell Observatory Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) 2013B-0270 GEM-N GEM-NQ 4.5
Moskovitz, Nicholas Lowell Observatory Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) 2013B-0270 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.3
Moskovitz, Nicholas Lowell Observatory Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) 2013B-0270 KPNO 4m 6
Nidever, David University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History - SMASH 2013B-0440 CTIO 0.9m 7
Nidever, David University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History - SMASH 2013B-0440 CTIO 4m 5
Rhoads, James Arizona State University The Cosmic Deep And Wide Narrowband (Cosmic DAWN) Survey 2013B-0528 KPNO 4m 12
Schlegel, David Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The DECam Legacy Survey of the SDSS Equatorial Sky 2014B-0404 CTIO 4m 14
Wood-Vasey, Michael University of Pittsburgh Type Ia Supernovae in the Near-Infrared: A Three-Year Survey toward a One Percent Distance Measurement with WIYN+WHIRC 2012B-0500 KPNO WIYN 13

 

Approved Long Term Programs

PI Institution Proposal Title Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.
Ghez, Andrea University of California, Los Angeles Using MCAO to Enable Unique Test of General Relativity at the Galactic Center 2014A-0457 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.44
Guenther, Hans Moritz Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Proto-stellar jets in the making 2014A-0200 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.3
Lu, Jessica University of Hawaii Young Massive Clusters in the Milky Way 2014A-0198 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2.25
Macri, Lucas Texas A & M University Towards a 2% measurement of H_0: Near-infrared light curves of Galactic Cepheids 2015A-0150 CTIO 1.3m 1.95
Sullivan, Mark University of Southampton SUDSS: Survey Using Decam for Superluminous Supernovae 2014B-0146 CTIO 4m 6.5
von der Linden, Anja Stanford University Weighing the f_ gas Giants 2015A-0121 CTIO 4m 2.5

 

Approved Regular Programs

PI Institution Proposal Title Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.
Alexander, Michael Lehigh University Optical Spectroscopy of Two Gamma-ray binaries 2015A-0190 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.57
Alexandroff, Rachael Johns Hopkins University Rest-frame optical spectra of high-redshift, dusty, galaxy-wide quasar outflow candidates 2015A-0290 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.05
Ammons, S Mark Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Studying the Most Powerful Gravitational Lens Telescopes with Suprime-Cam 2015A-0335 GEM-N GEM-N 1
Baines, Ellyn Naval Research Laboratory CHARA Array Measurements of Five Stellar Oscillators 2015A-0051   CHARA 2
Balbinot, Eduardo University of Surrey A southern wide-field survey of Galactic globular clusters and their tidal tails 2015A-0306 CTIO 4m 2
Barkhouse, Wayne University of North Dakota H-alpha Mapping of Star Formation in Cluster Dwarf Galaxies 2015A-0302 KPNO 4m 2.5
Barlow, Brad High Point University Finding and Characterizing the Ejected Donor Remnants of Double- Detonation SN Ia 2015A-0331 CTIO SOAR 2
Bassett, Robert Swinburne University of Technology Local Counterparts to High-Redshift Turbulent Galaxies: What are the Stellar Kinematics? 2015A-0384 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.2
Bastien, Fabienne Pennsylvania State University Correlating Photometric Variability and Chromospheric Activity in Kepler Stars 2015A-0202 KPNO WIYN 5
Batiste, Merida Georgia State University Deconstructing Dynamics: Improving AGN Measurements for Calibration of the M_BH - Relation 2015A-0199 KPNO WIYN 4
Belardi, Claudia University of Oklahoma A Search for Habitable Planets Around White Dwarfs 2015A-0107 CTIO 4m 4
Bell, Eric University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The stellar halos and dwarf satellites of M82+/-1 2015A-0281 GEM-N GEM-N 2
Bentz, Misty Georgia State University A Stellar Dynamical Black Hole Mass for the Nearby Seyfert Galaxy NGC5273 2015A-0052 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.38
Blair, William Johns Hopkins University Characterizing the Young Supernova Remnant Population in M83 2015A-0181 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.36
Blyth, Sarah-Louise University of Cape Town How Important is the Cosmic Web in Driving Galaxy Evolution? 2015A-0232 KPNO WIYN 3
Bochanski, John Rider College The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way 2015A-0077 GEM-S GEM-SQ 5
Bouy, Herve Centro de Astrobiologia Complementing Gaia from the ground: the DANCe survey 2015A-0048 KPNO 4m 3
Bowler, Brendan California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Planetary Companion ROXs12 b 2015A-0009 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.7
Bowler, Brendan California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups 2015A-0016 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 3.5
Bowler, Brendan California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups 2015A-0016 CTIO SOAR 1
Bowler, Brendan California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups 2015A-0016 KPNO 4m 1.5
Bowler, Brendan California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Young Substellar Benchmark PZ Tel B 2015A-0023 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.35
Briceno, Cesar Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory High Resolution Optical Imaging of HH 46/47 with SAM 2015A-0296 CTIO SOAR 1
Britt, Christopher Texas Technical University Dynamical Mass Measurements of Eclipsing Candidate Black Hole Binaries Discovered in Quiescence 2015A-0272 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.9
Brittain, Sean Clemson University HI emission lines from Herbig Ae/Be: A spectro-astrometric study with GEMINI/NIFS 2015A-0160 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.4
Brotherton, Michael University of Wyoming Rest-Frame Optical Properties of Luminous z~3 Quasars: Testing Mass and Redshift Improvements 2015A-0316 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.75
Buie, Marc Southwest Research Institute KBO orbits for occultation predictions 2015A-0259 KPNO 4m 5
Burgasser, Adam University of California, San Diego Mass Measurements Across the Hydrogen Burning Limit: Astrometric Orbits for Spectral Binaries 2015A-0057 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2.27
Caballero-Nieves, Saida University of Sheffield Young Companions to Massive Stars in Cygnus OB2 2015A-0108 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.28
Cai, Zheng University of Arizona Mapping the Most Massive Overdensity Through HI: KPNO/MOSAIC Observations of Galaxy Overdensities at z=2.3 2015A-0307 KPNO 4m 3
Calamida, Annalisa Space Telescope Science Institute The newly discovered Extreme Horizontal Branch pulsators in Centauri: a class apart? 2015A-0151 CTIO 4m 3
Canton, Paul University of Oklahoma The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs 2015A-0082 KPNO 4m 4
Carlberg, Joleen NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Beryllium Abundances in Select Li-rich Red Giants as a Signature of Planet Engulfment 2015A-0166 GEM-N GEM-N 1
Chen, Christine Space Telescope Science Institute Does the HR 4796 Debris Disk Contain Icy Grains? 2015A-0156 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.8
Chene, Andre-Nicolas Gemini Observatory North WR 63: a new rare multiple massive star system 2015A-0373 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.86
Ciardullo, Robin Pennsylvania State University An Imaging Survey for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment 2015A-0075 KPNO 4m 10
Cobb, Bethany George Washington University Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS 2015A-0227 CTIO 1.3m 1.5
Cook, Jason Southwest Research Institute Spectral Variablility of Charon 2015A-0189 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.9
Coronado, Johanna Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Assembling the Largest, Most Distant Sample of Genuine Halo Wide Binaries for Galactic Structure and Dynamics. 2015A-0080 KPNO 4m 3
Crnojevic, Denija Texas Technical University The faint end of the galaxy luminosity function: digging into the halo of NGC 3109 2015A-0130 CTIO 4m 2
Crnojevic, Denija Texas Technical University Environment and the evolution at low-mass galactic scales: clues from the Cen A group 2015A-0222 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.87
Cummings, Jeffrey Johns Hopkins University Survey of High-Mass White Dwarfs In Nearby Open Clusters 2015A-0369 SSO AAT 2
Curd, Brandon University of Oklahoma A Search for Massive White Dwarf Pulsators 2015A-0058 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.2
Currie, Thayne Subaru Telescope Confirming and Characterizing Two Young Planetary Companions with GPI 2015A-0165 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.5
De Boer, Thomas University of Cambridge Galactic Dark Matter properties with the Orphan stream 2015A-0110 CTIO 4m 2
Deliyannis, Constantine Indiana University Li and Na in NGC 6752: Constraints for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, mixing on the Red Giant Branch, and Multiple Globular Cluster Populations 2015A-0218 SSO AAT 2
Dhital, Saurav Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Observational Constraints on the White Dwarf Mass- Radius Relation 2015A-0292 CTIO SOAR 5
Dhital, Saurav Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Observational Constraints on the White Dwarf Mass- Radius Relation 2015A-0292 KPNO 4m 5
Drahus, Michal California Institute of Technology--JPL Rotation of Main Belt Comets (South) 2015A-0356 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.8
Drozdov, Dina Clemson University SNe Ia Light Echo Evolution 2015A-0065 KPNO 4m 3
Dufour, Francois McGill University A Continued Survey of Unclassified ROSAT-BSC Sources for qLMXB Candidates 2015A-0145 CTIO 0.9m 6
Esplin, Taran Pennsylvania State University Searching for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function 2015A-0152 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.72
Esplin, Taran Pennsylvania State University Searching for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function 2015A-0175 CTIO 4m 1
Esplin, Taran Pennsylvania State University A Complete Survey for Disk-bearing Members of the Upper Sco Association 2015A-0192 CTIO 4m 3
Everett, Mark National Optical Astronomy Observatory Spectroscopy of Kepler Candidate Exoplanet Host Stars 2015A-0207 KPNO 4m 7
Feldmeier, Anja European Southern Observatory The Milky Way nuclear star cluster as a benchmark for the structure and build-up of galactic nuclei 2015A-0376 GEM-S GEM-SQ 3.76
Figer, Don Rochester Institute of Technology Constraining the Properties of GLIMPSE-C01 - potentially the most massive young cluster in the Galaxy 2015A-0056 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.34
Foley, Ryan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology 2015A-0253 CTIO SOAR 5
Foley, Ryan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology 2015A-0253 KPNO 4m 2
French, Linda Illinois Wesleyan University In Search of the Trojan Spin Barrier 2015A-0062 CTIO 4m 5
Gallagher, Sarah University of Western Ontario Looking for Feedback Signatures in Quasar Outflows 2015A-0390 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.74
Geha, Marla Yale University The SAGA Project: Searching for Dwarf Galaxy Satellites Around Milky Way Analogs 2015A-0226 SSO AAT 3
Geha, Marla Yale University An Abridged Tail: Mapping the Palomar 5 Tidal Stream with DECam 2015A-0234 CTIO 4m 2
Geller, Aaron Northwestern University The Solar-Type Hard-Binary Frequency and Distributions of Orbital Parameters in the Open Cluster M37 2015A-0162 KPNO WIYN 2
Glikman, Eilat Middlebury College Dust-Reddened Quasars as Probes of Feedback and Co-Evolution 2015A-0149 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.11
Graham, James University of California, Berkeley Astrometry of Beta Pic with GPI 2015A-0249 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.07
Griffith, Caitlin University of Arizona Elementary Abundances of Planetary Systems 2015A-0317 GEM-N GEM-N 1
Grillmair, Carl California Institute of Technology--IPAC Mapping the Orphan Stream with DECam 2015A-0163 CTIO 4m 1
Gullikson, Kevin University of Texas, Austin Stellar Companions to A and B stars: Follow up Observations 2015A-0054 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.57
Gullikson, Kevin University of Texas, Austin Searching for Companions to A and B stars: Follow up 2015A-0245 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 5
Haines, Christopher Universidad de Chile LoCuSS: Pre-processing within X-ray-selected groups infalling into z~0.2 clusters 2015A-0401 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.56
Haines, Christopher Universidad de Chile LoCuSS: Pre-processing within X-ray-selected groups infalling into z~0.2 clusters 2015A-0401 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.24
Harrison, Thomas New Mexico State University Searching for Photometric Variations from the Irradiated Donor Star in Sco X-1 2015A-0005 CTIO 1.3m 0.6
Henry, Todd Georgia State University Searching for Companions to Nearby Stars on Solar System Scales 2015A-0132 GEM-N GEM-NQ 4
Herrmann, Kimberly Pennsylvania State University Planetary Nebula Dynamics in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies 2015A-0064 KPNO WIYN 4
Herrmann, Kimberly Pennsylvania State Mount Alto Planetary Nebula Kinematics of NGC 6946 2015A-0067 KPNO WIYN 4
Hinkle, Kenneth National Optical Astronomy Observatory The Nascent Planetary Nebula around Sakurai's Object 2015A-0143 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.3
Hinkle, Kenneth National Optical Astronomy Observatory The Nascent Planetary Nebula around Sakurai's Object 2015A-0143 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.1
Ho, Stephanie University of California, Santa Barbara Studying Galaxy Disk Structures and its Relation with Gas Accretion in z=0.15-0.3 Galaxies 2015A-0298 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.72
Horch, Elliott Southern Connecticut State University Defining the Metal-Poor Mass-Luminosity Relation 2015A-0224 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.49
Howell, Steve NASA Ames Research Center Characterization of the Properties of Binary Exoplanet Host Stars 2015A-0046 GEM-N GEM-NQ 3.62
Howell, D. Andrew University of California, Santa Barbara The LCOGT Supernova Key Project 2015A-0182 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.9
Howell, D. Andrew University of California, Santa Barbara The LCOGT Supernova Key Project 2015A-0182 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.9
Hsieh, Henry Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics The Rotation Rate of Active Asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS 2015A-0364 CTIO SOAR 1
Ireland, Michael Australian National University The Planetary Systems of Young Massive Stars 2015A-0386 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.8
Johns-Krull, Christopher M. Rice University Confirming Young Eclipsing Binaries in Carina 2015A-0188 CTIO 1.3m 0.52
Johnson, Sean University of Chicago Deep optical photometry of galaxies in the field of 3C263 2015A-0187 KPNO 4m 1
Jonker, Peter Netherlands Instittute for Space Research The unique opportunity to determine the mass of an accreting neutron star: the eclipsing accretion powered X-ray pulsar SWIFTJ1749.4-2807 2015A-0049 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.9
Jonsson, Henrik Lund Observatory The origin of fluorine in the Solar neighborhood: the possible contribution by Wolf-Rayet stars 2015A-0095 KPNO 4m 4
Jorgensen, Inger Gemini Observatory North RDCSJ1252-2927 - stellar populations in a massive z=1.24 galaxy cluster 2015A-0079 GEM-S GEM-SQ 3.05
Kaleida, Catherine Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory CTIO REU/PIA Student Observations: Targets of Opportunity 2015A-0267 CTIO 0.9m 8
Kawka, Adela Astronomicky ustav Polluted, peculiar, and duplicitous: The true nature of local white dwarfs 2015A-0102 KPNO 4m 3
Keel, William University of Alabama Giant Ionized Clouds and Fading AGN 2015A-0089 KPNO WIYN 4
Keeney, Brian University of Colorado Confirming the Discovery of Massive 10^6 K Gas Reservoirs in Spiral-Rich Galaxy Groups 2015A-0008 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.2
Kilic, Mukremin University of Oklahoma The First Pulsar + Pulsating White Dwarf System 2015A-0019 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.4
Kishimoto, Makoto Kyoto Sangyo University Scrutinizing AGN thermal emission at the highest spatial resolution 2015A-0242   CHARA 2
Knight, Matthew Lowell Observatory Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity 2015A-0285 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.7
Krafton, Kelsie Louisiana State University Late-Time Dust Formation in Core-Collapse Supernovae 2015A-0273 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.99
Krafton, Kelsie Louisiana State University Late-Time Dust Formation in Core-Collapse Supernovae 2015A-0273 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.55
Kronberger, Matthias EBG MedAustron Narrow-Band Imagery and Spectroscopy of New Planetary Nebula Candidates at High Galactic Latitudes 2015A-0053 KPNO 4m 2
Kronberger, Matthias EBG MedAustron Narrow-Band Imagery and Spectroscopy of New Planetary Nebula Candidates at High Galactic Latitudes 2015A-0053 KPNO WIYN 2
Lebzelter, Thomas Universitat Wien (University of Vienna) Dredge-up and the Period-Luminosity-Mass-Abundance relation of AGB stars 2015A-0063 KPNO 4m 2.5
Lee, Ting-Hui Western Kentucky University Chemical Abundances of Compact Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Disk 2015A-0114 CTIO SOAR 3
Lee, Kyoung-Soo Purdue University Witnessing the Earliest Stage of Cluster Formation at Z=3.78 2015A-0168 KPNO 4m 6
Leggett, Sandy Gemini Observatory North Characterizing new late-T and Y dwarfs at the faint limits of WISE 2015A-0185 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.1
Leighly, Karen University of Oklahoma Probing the Physics of Quasar Outflows using Mini-LoBALs 2015A-0112 KPNO 4m 3
Li, Jian-Yang Planetary Science Institute The First Polarimetric Mapping of Ceres 2015A-0212 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.95
Liu, Tingting University of Maryland Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Variability Selected Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidates 2015A-0263 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.53
Lomax, Jamie University of Oklahoma Illuminating New Circumstellar Paramter Space Around Eta Car with GPI 2015A-0126 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.48
Lucas, Michael University of Tennessee, Knoxville Building Blocks of the Terrestrial Planets: Mineralogy of Hungaria Asteroids 2015A-0362 CTIO SOAR 1
Lunnan, Ragnhild Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Beast's Lair: Observing the Host Galaxies of High-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae from Pan-STARRS1 2015A-0164 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.2
Mamajek, Eric University of Rochester DECam Survey for Benchmark Brown Dwarfs in the Nearest OB Association 2015A-0205 CTIO 4m 2
Mason, Brian US Naval Observatory Speckle interferometry of ``fast'' binaries 2015A-0097 CTIO SOAR 1
Mason, Rachel Gemini Observatory North Nearby velocity-offset AGN: signposts of double supermassive black holes? 2015A-0279 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.7
McCleary, Jacqueline Brown University The low-redshift end of the cluster mass substructure function 2015A-0103 CTIO 4m 2
McGahee, Courtney Appalachian State University Abundances in M67 Red Giants: Constraints on Stellar Mixing and the Origin of Yellow Stragglers 2015A-0289 KPNO WIYN 5
McMillan, Robert University of Arizona Astrometry and Photometry of Faint, High Priority Solar System Objects 2015A-0072 KPNO 4m 2
Melin, Henrik Space Environment Technologies The influence of the Sun on Saturn’s polar ionosphere 2015A-0120 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.4
Mendigutia, Ignacio University of Leeds The H(alpha) line forming region of Herbig Ae/Be stars 2015A-0098   CHARA 1
Miller, Bryan Gemini Observatory South Globular Cluster Spectroscopy of dEs in the Local Volume 2015A-0370 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2
Monnier, John University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Imaging Planet Formation in situ with Gemini Planet Imager 2015A-0204 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.05
Montet, Benjamin California Institute of Technology--Exolab Fundamental Parameters of Pre-Main Sequence M Dwarfs 2015A-0299 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 1
Montet, Benjamin California Institute of Technology--Exolab Fundamental Parameters of Pre-Main Sequence M Dwarfs 2015A-0300 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.19
Nielsen, Danielle University of Wisconsin, Madison Probing the intragroup medium with bent double lobed sources 2015A-0303 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.4
Ouellette, Nathalie Queen's University The Dynamical Properties and Velocity Function of Virgo Cluster Galaxies 2015A-0394 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.605
Ouellette, Nathalie Queen's University The Dynamical Properties and Velocity Function of Virgo Cluster Galaxies 2015A-0394 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.395
Patience, Jenny Arizona State University Monitoring the Atmospheres of the HR 8799 Planets 2015A-0346 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.6
Perlmutter, Saul Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory See Change: Testing for time-varying dark energy with z > 1 supernovae and their massive cluster hosts 2015A-0297 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.85
Perlmutter, Saul Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory See Change: Testing for time-varying dark energy with z > 1 supernovae and their massive cluster hosts 2015A-0297 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2.55
Person, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investigation of Pluto's Atmosphere with Stellar Occultations in the New Horizons Epoch 2015A-0100 CTIO SOAR 2.5
Pilachowski, Catherine Indiana University Last Gasp: HCl in Stellar Atmospheres with Phoenix 2015A-0208 KPNO 4m 6 (3 DD)
Placco, Vinicius Gemini Observatory North Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog 2015A-0071 CTIO SOAR 5
Placco, Vinicius Gemini Observatory North Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog 2015A-0071 KPNO 4m 6
Rajagopal, Jayadev National Optical Astronomy Observatory Imaging and Astrometry of the Active Asteroid P/2010 A2 2015A-0320 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.46
Rajan, Abhijith Arizona State University Brown dwarf Atmosphere Monitoring: Surveying the Coolest Brown Dwarfs 2015A-0291 KPNO 4m 6
Ramiaramanantsoa, Tahina University of Montreal Probing the photospheric origin of large scale wind structures in the hot supergiant Puppis 2015A-0002 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 4
Rest, Armin Space Telescope Science Institute Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions 2015A-0371 CTIO 4m 7
Rest, Armin Space Telescope Science Institute Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions 2015A-0371 KPNO 4m 4.5
Rest, Armin Space Telescope Science Institute Spectrophotometric Time Series of eta Carinae's Great Eruption 2015A-0383 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.43
Rest, Armin Space Telescope Science Institute Photometric Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption 2015A-0397 CTIO 4m 2.5
Reynolds, Mark University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Constraining the Orbital Period of a Enigmatic X-ray Binary 2015A-0350 CTIO 1.3m 1
Rich, R Michael University of California, Los Angeles The Blanco DECam Galactic Bulge Survey 2015A-0322 CTIO 4m 6
Richards, Emily Indiana University Ionized Gas Kinematics in the Central Regions of EDGES Galaxies 2015A-0088 KPNO WIYN 1
Richardson, Noel University of Montreal Fundamental Properties of eta Carinae Revealed through High Resolution Spectroscopy 2015A-0109 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 0.8
Richardson, Noel University of Montreal The Spectroscopic Variability of the Rosetta Stone Binary gamma Velorum 2015A-0133 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 3.4
Rodriguez, Joseph Vanderbilt University Confirming the Brightest Transiting Exoplanets from KELT-South with High- Precision Radial Velocities from AAT 2015A-0137 SSO AAT 2
Roediger, Joel Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Towards a Panchromatic Understanding of Old Stellar Systems 2015A-0396 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.5
Rojo, Patricio Universidad de Chile Investigating seasonal changes in Titan's meteorology through cloud monitoring with GPI 2015A-0402 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.4
Rudy, Alexander University of California, Santa Cruz Giant Flares and Non-Thermal Activity in the Crab Nebula 2015A-0125 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.35
Rusu, Cristian Eduard University of California, Davis Quantifying the line-of-sight mass distributions to time-delay lenses 2015A-0177 CTIO 4m 2
Saha, Abhijit National Optical Astronomy Observatory Establishing a Network of DA White Dwarf SED Standards 2015A-0174 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.535
Saha, Abhijit National Optical Astronomy Observatory Establishing a Network of DA White Dwarf SED Standards 2015A-0174 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.425
Sand, David Texas Technical University Constraining Type Ia Supernova Physics with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 2015A-0140 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.35
Sand, David Texas Technical University Constraining Type Ia Supernova Physics with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 2015A-0140 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.85
Sardane, Gendith University of Pittsburgh Mapping cool, metal-rich gas around z < 0.08 galaxies 2015A-0172 GEM-N GEM-NQ 3.01
Sargent, Benjamin Rochester Institute of Technology Confirming Inner Galactic Bulge OH/IR Stars' Identities with Flamingos-2 2015A-0301 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.59
Schlaufman, Kevin Massachusetts Institute of Technology An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars 2015A-0153 GEM-N GEM-NQ 4.584
Schlaufman, Kevin Massachusetts Institute of Technology An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars 2015A-0153 GEM-S GEM-SQ  
Schmitz, Denise California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy Central Kinematics of Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies 2015A-0047 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.75
Seth, Anil University of Utah A Survey of Massive Black Holes in Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies 2015A-0284 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.27
Sharon, Keren University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Resolving the Star Formation in Distant Galaxies” – supporting ground-based spectroscopy for a large HST program 2015A-0091 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.48
Shporer, Avi California Institute of Technology--JPL Studying low-mass short-period binary companions to stars across the main sequence 2015A-0191 KPNO WIYN 9.5 (1 DD)
Smith, R Chris Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory HITS Follow-up: High cadence Transient Survey, real-time follow-up of stellar explosions 2015A-0319 CTIO SOAR 3
Sonnett, Sarah California Institute of Technology--JPL Determining Orbits and Sizes of Near-Earth Objects Discovered by NEOWISE, Continued 2015A-0059 CTIO 4m-TOO  
Sonnett, Sarah California Institute of Technology--JPL Confirming Binary Asteroid Candidates to Constrain the Dynamical Evolution of the Solar System 2015A-0286 CTIO SOAR 4
Stern, Jonathan Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie Spatially Resolving the Kinematics of the ~100 uas Quasar Broad Line Region Using Spectroastrometry 2015A-0310 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.5
Stringfellow, Guy University of Colorado LBVs - Caught in the Act! 2015A-0288 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 4
Stringfellow, Guy University of Colorado Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae 2015A-0338 CTIO 1.3m 1.3
Stringfellow, Guy University of Colorado Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae 2015A-0338 CTIO SOAR 3.5
Sung, Ren-Shiang National Tsing Hua University Mass Accretion Rate of Very Low Luminosity Objects 2015A-0243 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.25
Sung, Ren-Shiang National Tsing Hua University Mass Accretion Rate of Very Low Luminosity Objects 2015A-0247 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.09
Thomas, Cristina NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visible Spectroscopy of Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids 2015A-0221 KPNO 4m 2
Thomas, Cristina NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Search for a Differentiated Asteroid Family 2015A-0274 CTIO SOAR 2
Tofflemire, Benjamin University of Wisconsin, Madison Accretion in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries 2015A-0006 CTIO 1.3m 2.7
Tokovinin, Andrei Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Snapshot RV survey of secondary components 2015A-0055 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 2
Tokovinin, Andrei Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Testing multiple-star formation with speckle at Gemini-N 2015A-0087 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.7
Tremblay, Grant Yale University Mapping the wreckage of a gas-rich major merger in a strong-lensing galaxy cluster 2015A-0287 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.4
Tucker, Brad Australian National University Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) 2015A-0329 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.22
Tucker, Brad Australian National University Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) 2015A-0329 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.12
Twarog, Bruce University of Kansas Constraining the Origin and Stellar Evolution of Li Using Giants in M92 and NGC 2506 2015A-0123 KPNO WIYN 4
Verbiscer, Anne University of Virginia Superior Mutual Event of (79360) Sila-Nunam 2015A-0326 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.75
Vivas, Kathy Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Where is the debris of the progenitor galaxy of Cen? 2015A-0117 CTIO SOAR 3
Walter, Frederick Stony Brook University Post-ouburst observations of the recurrent nova V745 Sco 2015A-0178 CTIO 1.3m 1.13
Walter, Frederick Stony Brook University Post-ouburst observations of the recurrent nova V745 Sco 2015A-0178 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 2.4
Walter, Frederick Stony Brook University Recent Novae 2004-2012: What Are They Now? 2015A-0261 CTIO 4m 4
Weingrill, Joerg Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Radial velocity membership for the open cluster M 48 2015A-0118 KPNO WIYN 3
Wilson, Michelle University of Arizona Spatially Resolving the Circumgalactic Medium at z=0.2-0.9 2015A-0203 GEM-N GEM-N 2
Winkler, P Frank Middlebury College Fast SNR Shocks and Cosmic Rays: Unique Opportunities in SN1006 2015A-0345 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.91
Yi, Sukyoung Yonsei University A Spectroscopic Follow-up to Deep Optical Imaging for 3 Abell clusters at z ~ 0.08 2015A-0304 KPNO WIYN 3
Young, Eliot Southwest Research Institute A Bright Occultation by Pluto Immediately Preceding the New Horizons Flyby 2015A-0099 SSO AAT 1
Zellem, Robert University of Arizona High Precision Measurements of an Exoplanet's Radius 2015A-0194 KPNO 4m 3
Zepf, Steve Michigan State University Long-Term X-ray and Optical Study of the Black Hole X-ray Binaries in the Elliptical Galaxies NGC 4472 2014A-0179 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.48

 

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